2020 .. What are you doing today?

[WZ JUNK]

I emptied the shop of everything that had wheels and some stuff that did not.  Then I vacuumed and washed everything that I could get to.  I try to do this a couple of times a year.  Having wheels on a lot of my stuff helps a lot.

[kb426]

Over here in the land of really boring, the parts for the brake calipers on the mark 8 rear arrived so it is completed. I had a problem with the heater in the shop for sometime. I took some time yesterday and figured out what was wrong. It now works as it should. I have done a bunch of small items to take my mind of of trying to find the next project. I borrowed a tool bit grinder and sharpened around 50 lathe tool bits and a few end mills. I exercised all the cycles in the last 2 days. I really miss that level of performance. I'm working on being more interesting in the future. LOL.

[kb426]

Matt, back in 2013 when I was starting on my 51, I wanted to incorporate styling cues from the 96 mustang gt that was the donor vehicle. My mind went blank and I decided to give up on that and just build a clean truck with good underpinnings. At the end of 2013, Gene Simmons showed "snakebit" at the sema show. I liked what they did with the truck but it was just a beginning. If your customer is up to it, you and your shop have the chance to do something very striking.

[enjenjo]

I went in today and had some cysts removed. Fun times.The Dermatologist is from Kansas, and went to school in Pittsburg. Her husband raced at MoKan.

[WZ JUNK]

I went in today and had some cysts removed. Fun times.The Dermatologist is from Kansas, and went to school in Pittsburg. Her husband raced at MoKan.

I knew we ran them out of this part of the country, I just did not know where they ended up.

Small world isn't it.  

I hope the cuts all heal well.

I am recovering from the shop cleaning today.

[58 Yeoman]

I installed a complete new entry door the other day (took me about 3 days). Then we decided that maybe we should paint the inside of the two car attached garage. Most of it hadn't been painted, just plain drywall. Being that I'm not fussy, I just decided to mud the joints and a few holes, one coat and not the smoothest. Got about 1/3 done today with two coats of paint. Yeah, the nails will  probably show rust spots where I didn't cover them, but that's the way it goes.

Still a long way to go.

[idrivejunk]

Matt, back in 2013 when I was starting on my 51, I wanted to incorporate styling cues from the 96 mustang gt that was the donor vehicle. My mind went blank and I decided to give up on that and just build a clean truck with good underpinnings. At the end of 2013, Gene Simmons showed "snakebit" at the sema show. I liked what they did with the truck but it was just a beginning. If your customer is up to it, you and your shop have the chance to do something very striking.

That has occurred to me and it is why my last several weekends, and more, have been donated to the cause. I bet I have created a hundred images but had only one favorable response. Not unlike foruming. That one where I did good is the one I showed here and all it was is a straight front view that mirrors the pro rendering. So technically I am still at zero and frantically trying to depict things that have been described.Things I would not vote for.

Two things are obvious: He and I don't like the same things. Model A guy and me pretty much do. F1 man is willing to do radical but retreats to just keeping that part stock if nothing appealing is presented. Very nice guy and he humors me. During that last visit, I caught the drift. Anything not presented in painstaking accurate detail and absolutely to taste is cast aside.

My enthusiasm for this type of thing will wane shortly, I can see that too. Either that or it will go the other way. I have two or three different oh can I call them mod bundles, for a tail end view of the truck. Decent stuff to park next to any other custom, I believe. What I don't think anyone could believe is the hours invested in creating images. A nontechnical  sketch is one thing. Several minutes. The simplest rendering starts with scouring the web for a pic that can work and hoping to not end up in jail for using it to work with. This often ís not possible but takes several search sessions to the limit of patience to find that out. A decent rendering means I've lost at least one night's sleep. I have a full time job and theres no other way to come up with enough hours.

I still don't know exactly what part of the Viper roof you were saying what about. It has a visor and wings out the back also. My interpretive logic is that the word reveal means the first part you see when it tops a hill. So I assume its the rooftop ditch. That snakebit truck, I had a look at it. To me it looks silly but I get it and yeah thats about as Mustang as you can make one. In my isolation, caring nothing about big time show cars, sometimes I come up with unheard of things. Junk or joke or jewelry depending on who you ask. I have no shortage of ideas now and could sketch them all in a half hour but that does not seem to be a negotiable format.

I intend to find out just how striking he is up for. So that if he ends up with less of that than he imagined, it won't be because of an idea shortage on my end. I wish I could show you the variety of ideas I scribbled out just tonight. Bet you'd dig some of them. I just really need a weekend to not mess with it for my own good but I know the only way out is to follow through, please the guy and build it first. If I don't let up, my hand troubles may stop me cold. Then nobody will get anything! If I produce something solid, I will run it by you guys.

I have the pan and firewall out for epoxy dude and was laying out the slot on the gravel guard panel below the grille area at quitting time.

[idrivejunk]

Gosh I hate it when I flap gums too much and run everybody off. I made it around to the first rear image today. Rendered from scratch but began with a tracing of a pic. I am starting off gently and will work up to the Viper thing.

[chimp koose]

like the F100 tail lights I really liked the other rendering where you put those "fins" into the end gate , kinda 60 impala ish

[kb426]

Matt, I like both of those. Be interesting to hear the customer's response.

[idrivejunk]

I just made one per his response but it is after 10PM so not going to send him that yet. He saw that and another one where I put the tips in the fenders like we discussed in person. He liked the gate tie-in with the hood but I haven't put the nose on one yet. That consists of using an 18x14" section of the center rear of old hood and he has not seen that sketch. Guys at work went wild about that half sketch, everybody likes the tip in it and the gate top mods. I have 3 versions of that part. If he goes for fins... ditch is next.

What did I just render at his request? Plain billet 4.5" oval tails. He wanted to see the f100s horizontal but they hide behind stake pocket too much. I had already gone there. Anyway with billet ovals he wants exh tips twice their size but same shape. So he gets it. Tomorrow on that and it does look like 1950s rocket ship. Sent him one with the tall ford gate letters too. Wanting to try the 60s econoline front turn signals on it. And I did get reference shots for the gate fins but that is a wierd deal to explain/imagine/render.

And yes, of course I pointed him at 57 Pontiac tails. Imagine 61-3 f100 tails being lazy laying down in the shade of fins. I was working on a black image and some devil faces appear if you arrange things just right, backwards at 78 speed.

Today I found the way to upload pics on my blog again so I may dedicate a page so "he" can just visit the site to see all.

[enjenjo]

Here is a nice priced LED oval tail light, about 6" by 2" and it frenchs into a fender real nice. You don't need the rubber around it, and it's a sealed unit with waterproof wiring.

[idrivejunk]

Yep, that style is the main one in search results for oval tail lights. To me it screams trailer. Wrecker, utility bed, etc. I keep wanting to repeat the shape of the hood nose trim. What he showed me was an actual oval. 625 TL 1910 at Jegs. 5 1/2" wide and mind blowing expensive. I am having to beat down my urge to suggest more tail light but thats par for me. I thought the 64-6 bezels could serve at the lamps, exh tips, and hood vent inlets. They want something fancy there but don't care if theres a hole. :?

[idrivejunk]

Here is the page I will put new ones on. Making them all a thousand pixels wide for easy viewing but I work on them at three times that size.

http://chevroldsmobuiac.blogspot.com/2020/09/51-f-1-50-art.html?m=1

[WZ JUNK]

I started some work on the old truck today.  I am going to change some wiring and the plug for the harness on the front for the headlight and turn signals.  The transmission is being removed and rebuilt.  The front is placed on a fixture with wheels so that I can move it around when I need to.

During the winter I plan to reskin the top to repair the damaged metal.  A few years ago some of the paint popped loose on the top and it immediately damaged the metal beyond repair.  I think water wicked through the skim coat of bondo and caused rust damage very quickly.   It may get a new paint job.  I have been thinking about changing the color and doing some scallops instead of flames.

The truck was built about 30 years ago.  I thought I would go back after I started driving it and finish all the things that were left undone but so far I have not.  Maybe it is time.